Ask HN: Any e-commerce site/solution that understands complex information needs?
Example 1: Multiple conditions...
> wifi routers with openwrt support get it by tomorrow 8MB flash 64MB RAM price below $20 with at least 80% positive reviews
Example 2: Multiple products with inter-dependencies...
> Ryzen 4th gen with 8 cores and graphics support + compatible motherboard that supports 32GB RAM + 32GB compatible RAM, total price < $500
I tried both on Amazon but the results didn't satisfy many of my criteria.
I'm wondering why the online shopping UX in 2022 looks and feels pretty much like my first experience on eBay back in 2005. These websites only walk half-way, sometimes not even that far.
I have to do the rest of the evaluation by scrolling through 5000 reviews, pulling in information from other websites, manually intersecting sets of results, etc. They don't even provide their inventories as structured data so I can code up something quickly.
We have much better natural language understanding now. We have the "semantic web", ontologies, knowledge graphs, graph neural networks and so much more. I feel like this should be possible in 2022.
__Question:__ Is there any e-commerce site, or even a demo, or a SaaS that's able to do this kind of thing?